Rebecca Romero
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No her 2 medals in different sports this year was the first i think
This weekends shown that theres enough young talent on the way on the track to replace riders like her when they retire or swap sports like she might do0 -
2 sports has been done a couple of times before. Swimming and Water Polo comes to mind from pre-Olympics coverage
3 sports would be a first.
I'd reckon that speed skating would be her best bet, but 2010 would be pushing it to get adapted in time0 -
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It must be more difficult this time. Cycling has inducted other athletes from other backgrounds with success and recruited her. Have other sports had that experience and set-up, confidence to do that? Rowers use cycling and running as she did in their training.0
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I'd read it somewhere that she was considering a winter sport - perhaps X-C skiing or speedskating both which use similar physiology to cycling. However, in both sports the UK has no pedigree which makes the challenge doubly-difficult. I doubt she'd be able to become technically proficient on skis too quickly and the depth of competition from the nordic countries, Russia and China would make it hard. Speedskating might be the easiest option. Finally, there's always the skeleton or the luge - you just need big kahunas! Summer Olympic doubles are quite common AFAIK, as are summer-winter medals - cycling and speed skating - but I think the treble-sport medal hasn't been achieved.Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..0
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The rumour that she was switching sports was going around at the time of the Olympics. I remember one interview when she said she meant it as a joke and was not considering switching sports.
Her best chance for a second medal would be in another cycling discipline such as time-trial. The points race always seems unpredictable.0 -
AFAIK only two women have ever achieved a summer double, Romero being the second.0
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Don't forget, BBC1, 11.05 tonight
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Did anyone watch the program who can describe what was in it?0
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I stayed up to watch it despite being up at 5 the next morning.... it was all about Nick Faldo :twisted:0
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Sounds like they've piled up an archive of sports interviews to use as fill-ins and can reschedule easily.
Individual retailers in Twickenham where she lived and family still live put up 2 posters for her with Tim Brabants and the council invited her to celebratory meal. There and in neighbouring boroughs gold olympic and paralympics got some articles in free magazines but otherwise there's been no recognition of their achievements. Probably the same throughout the country except for Rebecca Addlington and Chris Hoy.0 -
Sad isn't it - I'd thought the same, they've faded from the limelight almost as fast as they came into it after the Olympics.
But in the case of Romero I thought there was more chance of this getting shown - the first British woman to win Olympic Gold in two sports, and now considering a third, PLUS there was a trailer for it a few weeks ago :evil:
I sent in a comment on one of the BBC pages asking what happened to it, but it's not (yet) been published never mind answered.0 -
Rather than switch to a third sport I would have thought Romero should extend her palmares in cycling - Sarah Ulmer's 3km world record is 3m24s and Romero's done a 3m28s. There's also van Moorsel's hour record. Or she could focus on TT. Cycling neds a personality like Romero toimprove female track cycling's profile with public.0
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She can come round and tidy my flat -- it's in a right state. Got to be as challenging as winning an Olympic medal.0
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I thought they showed this interview a few weeks back - certainly remember seeing clips from it.0
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Her interview has just been on TV, you can see it here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_ ... 745934.stm
Only a few minutes long but an interesting insight.0
